Sarah Dow Jackson

Published 6:00 am Thursday, January 30, 2003

Services for Sarah Dow Jackson of Brookhaven are 1 p.m.,Saturday, Feb. 1, at St. James Missionary Baptist Church withburial in Carver Heights Cemetery.

Visitation is Friday from noon to 6 p.m., with family hour from6-7 p.m., at Williams Mortuary.

Mrs. Jackson, 78, died Jan. 25, 2003, at her residence. She wasborn in Lincoln County on Nov. 13, 1924, to Willie Dow and BessieDow.

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She was disabled. She was a member of St. James MissionaryBaptist Church. She was a 1945 graduate of Alexander High School.She attended Grambling College on an athletic scholarship.

Preceding her in death were her parents; a daughter, CharleneJackson Allen; and her brothers, John Dow Sr., and Robert Dow.

Survivors are her husband, Charlie Jackson of Brookhaven; herson, Charlie Jackson Jr., of Brookhaven; her daughters, JohnetteDow Henderson of Brookhaven, and LaKendra Hampton of Kileen, Texas;her god-daughter, Dr. Marilyn Dow-Harris of Brookhaven; and 12grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces,nephews and other relatives and friends.